Court tells Dutch state to bring back more jihadi brides to face trial

(Dutch News) Judges in Rotterdam have again ruled that the Dutch state must bring a group of mothers and children back to the Netherlands from Syria, in order to ensure the women are prosecuted.

The court ruled in a closed hearing that the state must fetch 12 women and their 29 children within four months, the Telegraaf reported.

The Netherlands wants to prosecute the women for their role in the terror group IS and the women say they want to appear in court personally, as is their right.

The courts have previously come to similar verdicts but this is the biggest group of women to be involved in a single hearing, the paper said.

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